Posted on June 6, 2025

 

 

Biden Their Tongues

Media feign ignorance of the obvious

by

Daniel Clark

 

 

Ever since CNN Washington correspondent Jake Tapper began promoting his book, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, journalists across the country have been expressing shock over Joe Biden's diminished cognitive state, and questions of who had really been acting as president for the past four years. Even Tapper's co-author, Axios political correspondent Alex Thompson, admitted that, "We, myself included, missed a lot of this story."

It's easy to see why these legions of sleuthing truth-tellers were unaware of Biden's loss of his presidential marbles, the facts being so subtle and scarce. So Biden had to be prevented from interacting with others for almost the entirety of the 2020 campaign, hidden away "in the basement" as his opponents would characterize it. As president, he seldom spoke to the press, and when he did he would just deliver a statement and walk away, prompting reporters to holler questions at him in vain. He would carry cheat sheets to routine White House events, and then hold them up so that they could be seen giving him instructions like, "YOU take YOUR seat ... YOU thank participants ... YOU depart."

He would often lose his train of thought mid-sentence, and use the word "anyway" to excuse himself from finishing. He didn't know what to call the Declaration of Independence ("You know, the thing"). He mistook his wife for his sister. He would misread the teleprompter, saying out loud those parts that were not meant to be spoken. For example, when he was supposed to pause to allow for an orchestrated "four more years" chant from his audience, he instead read the words, "Four more years. Pause." After speaking, he would sometimes reach out to shake hands with somebody who wasn't there.

Speaking at a gathering of anti-gun activists in Connecticut, he confused the audience when he wrapped up his remarks with the non sequitur, "God save the Queen, man." Three months later in Vietnam, he concluded a press conference by saying, "I don't know about you, but I'm going to go to bed."

At a G20 summit in Brazil, he wandered off and consequently did not appear in the traditional photograph with the other world leaders. When he froze on stage at a fundraiser in Los Angeles, his former boss, President Obama, took him by the hand and led him away. His wife Jill would often walk him around by the hand at diplomatic events, making him appear like a child. When he became involved in an impromptu discussion with reporters at the White House Easter egg roll, a staffer in a bunny costume intervened and whisked him away. On multiple occasions, indentations from his CPAP machine could be seen in his face during events in the middle of the afternoon, indicating that somebody had just woken him up, gotten him dressed, and shoved him out in front of the cameras.

When special counsel Robert Hur announced that he would not bring charges against Biden for keeping classified documents in his garage, he attributed his decision to the president's observable state of deterioration, explaining that, "at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory."

That's not much to go on. It's not as if Tapper and his intrepid, hard-working colleagues were clairvoyant, or anything. If they say they innocently "missed a lot of this story," rather than being active conspirators in a Democrat cover-up, then let's give them the benefit of the doubt. As long as we're assuming that the liberal media simply missed the warning signs of Biden's unfitness for office, however, they ought to be willing to conduct an audit of their past reporting for other, equally elusive facts that they failed to grasp at the time. For example:

* Maybe President Biden, or whoever was acting in his stead, really could have taken certain measures to stem the tide of illegal immigration, without any new legislation needing to be passed. It might even prove to be the case that illegal immigration was already illegal. At any rate, if he really did want to control our borders but for the intransigence of congressional Republicans, proposing that "we immediately surge to the border all those people seeking asylum" was obviously counterproductive.

* It turns out that "illegal aliens" is not only an accurate term, but a legally proper one, whereas "undocumented immigrants," which makes their status sound like the result of a paperwork snafu, is grossly inaccurate and should not be used by any respectable journalist.

* Perhaps future criticisms that Donald Trump is paranoid should be tempered by a recognition that he really was the victim of a deep-state conspiracy to remove a duly elected president from office, the Steele Dossier really was a hoax, the Obama Justice Department really did spy on the Trump 2016 campaign, Adam Schiff really did lie repeatedly, both in TV interviews and in the House chamber, and Trump really has been the target of frivolous, legally dubious, politically motivated litigation ever since.

* In hindsight, angrily demanding that everybody wear masks riddled with pores that are as much as 2000 times larger than a coronavirus particle might not have been the best example of "following the science."

* Upon further review, rampaging hordes of rioting arsonists and looters are not really so peaceful after all.

* If you want to get really technical about it, there isn't any hard evidence that your car has ever caused a hurricane.

* Greta Thunberg has largely been a creation of the media, and for that, profuse apologies are due.

* Although people are often killed "with" guns, not a single person in the history of the world has ever been killed "by" a gun, and any report that says somebody had been is bad journalism.

* When women who have taken abortion drugs die of complications from abortion, blaming their deaths on people who oppose abortion is irrational, and certainly not deserving of the Pulitzer Prize that was recently given to ProPublica.

* It turns out that there are these things called "chromosomes," which tell us not only that a new human being is created at the instant of fertilization, but also whether this person is male or female. This means a person's gender is integral to the creation of that person. It is not "assigned at birth," nor is it determined by the subjective choice of that same person.

* To the extent that there is any such thing as a Middle East peace process, the only party that has ever been willing to accept a two-state solution is Israel.

* Media retrospectives on the Iraq War should probably get around to mentioning Saddam Hussein at some point, even at the risk of undermining the prevailing narrative.

* Our military won the war in Iraq, and it also did everything it needed to do in Afghanistan until our leaders gave it away. Muttering "thankyouforyourservice" is a poor substitute for acknowledging those accomplishments.

By going back and un-missing these stories, Tapper and the rest of the seemingly surprised journalists could go a long way toward establishing the credibility they've always imagined they had. What do you say, Jake?

 

 

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